NEWS

   1 kmod 7
   2 ======
   3
   4 - Re-order dirs for configuration files to match the change in systemd and
   5   udev: now the priority is:
   6         1. /etc/modprobe.d
   7         2. /run/modprobe.d
   8         3. /lib/modprobe.d
   9
  10 - Fix setting CFLAGS/LDFLAGS in build system. This prevents us from not
  11   allowing user to set his preference
  12
  13 - Bug fixes:
  14         - Return same error codes of module-init-tools when removing modules
  15           with modprobe
  16         - Fix builtin output in "--show-depends" when target kernel is not the
  17           same of the running kernel
  18         - 'modprobe -r' always look at all command line arguments
  19         - Fix '-q' usage in modprobe
  20         -
  21
  22 kmod 6
  23 ======
  24
  25 - New API in libkmod:
  26         - kmod_module_apply_filter(): a generic function to apply filters in a
  27           list of modules. This deprecates the use of
  28           kmod_module_get_filtered_blacklist()
  29
  30 - More tests in testsuite
  31
  32 - Add compatibility with uClibc again
  33
  34 - Lookup modules.builtin.bin to decide if a module is built in kernel
  35
  36 - Downgrade some log messages so we don't annoy people with useless messages
  37
  38 - Bug fixes:
  39         - Flag --ignore-loaded was not being properly handled
  40         - Infinite loop with softdeps
  41         - Infinite loop with dumb user configuration with install commands
  42         - Fix leak in index when there's a partial match
  43
  44 - Move repository and tarballs to kernel.org
  45
  46 kmod 5
  47 ======
  48
  49 - Break libkmod's API to insert a module like modprobe does. It now accepts
  50   extra an extra argument to print its action and acceptable flags were
  51   sanitized.
  52
  53 - Share more code between modprobe and libkmod: using the new version of
  54   kmod_module_probe_insert_module() it's possible to share a great amount of
  55   code between modprobe and libkmod
  56
  57 - modprobe no longer works with paths: it only accepts module names and/or
  58   aliases now.
  59
  60 - testsuite was added to repository, allowing automated tests to be run and
  61   easing the way bugs are reproduced.
  62
  63 - modprobe: when dumping configuration ('-c' option) separate config
  64   and indexes by adding a commented line between them.
  65
  66 - Fix bugs wrt normalizing aliases and module names
  67
  68 - Fix bug wrt inserting an alias that resolves to multiple modules: we should
  69   not stop on the first error, but rather continue to try loading other
  70   modules.
  71
  72 - Fix unaligned memory access in hash function, causing depmod to output wrong
  73   information in ARMv5
  74
  75 - Fix man page build and install: now they are only installed if tools are
  76   enabled
  77
  78 kmod 4
  79 ======
  80
  81 - New APIs in libkmod to:
  82         - Get configuration lists: blacklists, install commands, remove
  83           commands, aliases, options and softdeps
  84         - Dump indexes
  85
  86 - Several bugs fixed in libkmod, modprobe, depmod and modinfo
  87
  88 - API documentation: if configure with run with --enable-gtk-doc, the API doc
  89   will be generated by make. Gtk-doc is required for that.
  90
  91 - Man pages are built, which replace man pages from module-init-tools
  92
  93 - 'include' and 'config' options in *.conf files were deprecated
  94
  95 - configure is not run by autogen.sh. Instead, a common set of options is
  96   printed. If you are hacking on kmod, consider using bootstrap-configure
  97   script.
  98
  99 - 'modprobe -c' works as expected now. As opposed to module-init-tools, it
 100   dumps the parsed configuration, not only the file contents.
 101
 102 kmod 3
 103 ======
 104
 105 - New APIs in libkmod to:
 106         - Get symbols from module, parsing the ELF section
 107         - Get dependency symbols
 108         - Check if resources are still valid or if libkmod must be reloaded
 109         - Insert module like modprobe, checking (soft-)dependencies, commands,
 110           blacklist. It can run commands by itself and to call a callback
 111           function.
 112
 113 - Support to load modules compressed with xz
 114
 115 - Tools are now bundled together in a single tool called kmod. It can be
 116   called using symlinks with the same names as tools from module-init-tools.
 117   E.g: /usr/bin/lsmod -> /usr/bin/kmod. With this we are aiming to complete a
 118   1:1 replacement of module-init-tools.
 119
 120 - The only missing tool, depmod, was added to kmod together with the necessary
 121   APIs in libkmod.
 122
 123 - If a program using libkmod runs for a long time, as for example udev, it must
 124   check if it doesn't have to re-load libkmod. A new helper function was added
 125   in libkmod to check if context is still valid and udev is already using it.
 126
 127 - An 'unaligned access' bug was fixed. So those architecture that does not
 128   handle unaligned access can use kmod, too.
 129
 130 kmod 2
 131 ======
 132
 133 Some bugs fixed: the worst of them was with an infinite loop when an alias
 134 matched more than one module.
 135
 136 - New APIs in libkmod to:
 137         - Get soft dependencies
 138         - Get info from module files parsing ELF
 139         - Get modversions from files parsing ELF
 140
 141 - Support to load gzipped kernel modules: kmod can be compiled with support to
 142   gzipped modules by giving the --enable-zlib flag
 143
 144 - Support to forcefully load modules, both vermagic and modversion
 145
 146 - Support to force and nowait removal flags
 147
 148 - Configuration files are parsed in the same order as modprobe: files are
 149   sorted alphabetically (independently of their dir) and files with the same
 150   name obey a precedence order
 151
 152 - New tool: kmod-modinfo
 153
 154 - kmod-modprobe gained several features to be a 1:1 replacement for modprobe.
 155   The only missing things are the options '--showconfig' and '-t / -l'. These
 156   last ones have been deprecated long ago and they will be removed from
 157   modprobe. A lot of effort has been put on kmod-modprobe to ensure it
 158   maintains compabitility with modprobe.
 159
 160 - linux-modules@vger.kernel.org became the official mailing list for kmod
 161
 162 kmod 1
 163 ======
 164
 165 First version of kmod and its library, libkmod.
 166
 167 In the libkmod it's currently possible to:
 168         - List modules currently loaded
 169         - Get information about loaded modules such as initstate, refcount,
 170           holders, sections, address and size
 171         - Lookup modules by alias, module name or path
 172         - Insert modules: options from configuration and extra options can be
 173           passed, but flags are not implemented, yet
 174         - Remove modules
 175         - Filter list of modules using blacklist
 176         - For each module, get the its list of options and install/remove
 177           commands
 178         - Indexes can be loaded on startup to speedup lookups later
 179
 180 Tools provided with the same set of options as in module-init-tools:
 181         - kmod-lsmod
 182         - kmod-insmod
 183         - kmod-rmmod
 184         - kmod-modprobe, with some functionality still missing (use of softdep,
 185           dump configuration, show modversions)